BEIJING, Sept. 17 -- You can always wait for the next year if you miss celebrating a festival in true style and spirit. But events like the Olympics and Paralympics come only once in a lifetime, hence, the overwhelming feeling when it's time to bid goodbye to one. The curtains will come down on the Paralympic Games tonight. Sure, it will end the celebrations. But the spirit will live on.
Michael Hartnett of Australia hugs with their coach after winning the gold medal match of men's wheelchair basketball between Australia and Canada at the Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games in Beijing, Sept. 16, 2008. Australia defeated Canada 72-60 and won the gold medal.
If the Olympics made the world understand China better, the Paralympics made the Chinese understand the fighting quality of the physically challenged better. Under the Paralympics motto of Transcendence, Integration, Equality, Beijing held the biggest ever party of the disabled.
The 12-day celebration of the human spirit threw up many spectacular and touching moments - moments of unalloyed joy and the will to keep the fight up.
Ukrainian football players throw their coach Sergiy Ovcharenko in the air after winning the gold medal match of the football 7-a-side during the Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games in Beijing, China, Sept. 16, 2008. Ukraine defeated Russia 2-1 and claimed the title.
The Japanese-Dutch women's volleyball match provided one such moment. Asano Kumi missed her first Paralympics because she fell victim to septicshock 20 days before the Games. But her teammates made sure she was present with them, for they carried the 21-year-old's photograph and No. 12 jersey on the court during every match. The Japanese women lost all their games, but the Games are much more than about winning or losing.
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